he can't use drugs or alcohol. he can't return to the scene of the alleged crime, which is his house. he needs permission to leave town, and he is going to have to check in with police twice a week, andrea. >> michelle kazinski, thank you very much. a very busy day there in pretoria. thanks for all your reporting, and the sequester deadline, meanwhile, looms exactly one week from today. the president has started calling republican leaders, at least in the last couple of days, but neither side has budged. joining me for our daily fix chris calizza, msnbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com, and bloomberg views columnist martha carlson. welcome both. chris, what do you expect, if anything, in the coming weeks? is it all baked in the cake? everyone assumes it's going to happen, and despite all of the alarms that are going off about the impact, the public doesn't seem terribly concerned, chris brsh. >> no. what i expect in the next week, andrea, is more of what we saw from transportation secretary la ho